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Intel, AMD to Bury Antitrust Hatchet; Intel to Pay $1.25b
- sadiq 17y agoGreat for the duopoly. Maybe not so great for companies getting locked out of the market (like Nvidia).
- sireat 17y agoAlso Via is probably left out in the cold. Good news for AMD stockholders(stock is already up 20%+).
- roc 17y agoYeah, I can't help but think this new cross-licensing agreement contains clauses to prevent AMD from sub-licensing. e.g. to nVidia. Why else would Intel give up so quickly and completely? Clearly they're getting something out of this that's worth at least 1.2B to them.
- cookiecaper 17y agoMaybe Intel saw something worse coming down the line from the courts. I know that the EU's fines on Microsoft have certainly set them straight; within a few weeks of the levying of billions in penalties, Microsoft had a sudden change of heart on the default browsing modes in IE8 and released thousands of pages in additional format specifications, etc.
- GrandMasterBirt 17y agoYea getting hit by anti-trust laws can be damn costly to a company.
- c00p3r 17y agoThat money will be redirected to investors. Btw, AMD holds a debt of comparable size.
- ars 17y agoTheir debt is about $3.7 billion http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/14/amd-debt-spansion-markets-equity-cx_af_0514markets16.html http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/14/amd-debt-spansion-markets-e..., so this only partially helps.
- Perceval 17y agoI wonder how comparable this agreement will be to the one signed between Microsoft and Apple that ended their legal battles over "look and feel." They signed patent cross-licensing agreements about five years later. But the agreement came when Apple had all but lost the PC market to Microsoft--the agreement was Apple's way of capitulating and Microsoft allowing Apple to save face. What does this mean for the Intel monopoly position in the market?
- Tuna-Fish 17y agoRight now, Intel can easily maintain their position on products alone -- the only place AMD can compete is on the low end, and even there Intel can cut prices to where AMD just can't compete if Intel feels like it. All the anticompetitive stuff happened when AMD genuinely had the better product, and until that happens again, I doubt anything will happen to Intel's position.
- Tamerlin 17y agoLet's just hope that it DOES happen again!
- adamc 17y agoAvoiding spending more money on litigation has to be a win for everyone, including the customers of these companies.
- rbanffy 17y agoBut what about the chi^H^H^Hlawyers?